A Habit of Shores: Filipino Poetry and Verse from English, 60's to the 90's

[rayheinrich]

Scribe's note 1: How do you indent? I think the indents I used below were a bit too much.

Code:

You seem to be using [=8] to space out. You can use smaller ones like [=4] and [=2] and even [=1] or any combination.
Also: There needs to be a space after the square right bracket. Like this:  [=4] word   and not like this  [=4]word

When everything is done after an hour
[=8]we all sit down for dinner,
Having earlier begun our wine
[=8]& fruit.
"A fine day for a barbecue party,"
[=8]Kathleen says,
& We pause & Bob says grace.
[=8]I sit sharply aware: I feel & see
Us all, as if apart: I watch from a
[=8]point just above my head in space,
Beside the blue spruce alive with needles
[=8]of light.
We quietly pray, & the bees come to us for
[=8]the wayward wine on our lips.

That's one way to change it, but that's pretty laborious unless you use the "replace" function on your text editor;
then it's easy. Sometimes, if you're just pasting it in from your text editor, it gets the spacing confused. Be sure
you're using actual spaces and not tabs, it doesn't seem to like tabs from some sources.

I'd ask billy, he knows a bit more than me about the spacing as I always use the old-fashioned [=x] because it's easy
for me to do search and replace on the whole damn thing.
Ray

P.S. Really do enjoy these. Nice clean stuff, simple and direct... and as profound as life.